Throughout the 1900’s great and monumental changes were made in our country. Changes the Like Fair Labors Act of 1938, the Dyer Anti Lynching bill, and Women’s Suffrage all took place in at this time. The 1900's also brought in Muckraking, the Dust Bowl, the Great Depression, and the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre. The mid 1900s gave way to crime and gangs a problem that we still have today. Satchmo and Louis Armstrong along with Duke Ellington, And Frank Sinatra are all products of the 1900's. All of our favorite music and dances can be attributed to the early Jazz and Blues and Swing of the 1900's. In the following paragraphs we are going to briefly touch on a few of the major events that occurred during the time period from 1900 to 1940. A weekend that everyone enjoys is a weekend spent at the movie theatre, with a big tub of popcorn, a cold refreshing coke, and a hot date. But we must ask ourselves, would we even have these movies if it weren’t for the first talking movie The Jazz Singer. The Jazz Singer was produced in 1927 under Warner Brothers Company. It was the first movie to feature speech inside of the movie. It also featured six songs, and was based on the stage play The Jazz Singer. This was a break through invention giving us the ability to make movies more interesting, comical, dramatic and overall better. However, this movie also was a very powerful movie for many other reasons. Such as it was what was called a “blackface” movie. Meaning, they had a white actor and they painted his face all black except his lips to make him appear black. Also, the fact that the main character was a Jew, but he wants be a jazz singer so bad that he is willing to go against his religion and behind his parents backs. This was very unfamiliar territory for these directors so for them to venture this far was astonishing. The sound was recorded on what was called a Vitaphone. The sound was not recorded on the movie itself but rather a 16-inch phonograph record. Since most...

...By 1871, the separate states of Italy had finally become a unified country. Nationalism played a ver large part in this unification process. If it hadn't been for the people of this region having a strong sense of pride for their country, Italy would still be split up into many nations as it was in the early 1800's. There were certain people who helped move this process along tremendously, including Cavour, Mazzini and Garibaldi. All these great men helped form new movements or ideas. Then in the late 1800's, the people of Italy had a growing sense of nationalism, which led to many changes in the future of their states.
Feelings of nationalism arose while Napoleon I was in rule and then later, developed into large movements. Even more importantly, thinkers and writers who tried to create interests in the Italian traditions, ended up bringing up the Risorgimento, which in Italian means - " the resurgence". Risorgimento was a nationalistic movement aimed to liberation and unification. Patriots of the Risorgimento worked together in their aims of liberation and unification, however, they disagreed on what type of government that would come into place after this unification.
Secret societies called Carbonari, which was created and led by Mazzini, who furthered nationalistic feelings and was even imprisoned for the uprisings he caused. Mazzini was an idealist and envisioned a united Italy and devoted his entire life to this goal....

...Many poems, written before the 1900’s, express the emotion of love. Each poem explores the meaning in a different way and in different forms. In this essay I will be investigating three different poems/sonnets; La Belle Dame Sans Merci written by John Keats, Porphyria’s Lover by Robert Browning and last but not least Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare. All of these have very different aspects and views, this is what makes them so interesting to compare because of the wide contrast involving the three poems.
La Belle Dame Sans Merci is a ballad written by an English poet, John Keats. John Keats lived between the years 1795 – 1821, his life cut short by tuberculosis. By this time, he had been writing serious poetry for barely six years but, even so, he was a very accomplished English poet. This ballad was written in 1819, this was only three years before his death. This ballad was one of the five poems to be written by Keats in 1819. It is a dialogue between two speakers: an unnamed speaker who is talking to the knight and the knight himself. The word ballad is originally French and its meaning is a “dancing song”. They are narrative poems, made up of quatrains (four line verses), they follow the rhyme scheme a-b-a-b, and often use very simple stanzas. Many ballads are about tragic things, therefore La Belle Dame Sans Merci is about tragic love. This ballad is considered an English classic and follows the strict ballad structure. This title is...

...Stephen Mensah
Period 6
The topic I will be writing about is Music in the 1900s starting from the beginning and explaining how and why new genre’s emerged from the old ones, to result in the music we know today. My research will be derived of these following books: Letters to a Young Jazz Musician, The ballad of book of john Jacob Niles, and I Hear America Singing.
Notes and bibliography
Website 1: Enjoy the music.com/history
(notes A.) As the1900's began, the variety of music genre began to grow exponentially it seems. Ragtime, big band, jazz, folk, blues, crooning, scat, country/western, funk, be bop, rock, southern rock, disco, punk, break dance, hip-hop, techno, acid jazz, progressive, alternative, house music and many other types and variables were formed. Rock and country/western spawned southern rock. Progressive and jazz combined to form acid jazz. After disco came break dancing which then followed with hip-hop, techno and house music. So as the instruments and supporting technology changed, the way we expressed ourselves with music also seems to have changed.
Website 2: www.john-meekings.co.uk/timeline.html
Timeline of the 1900s: The turn of the century saw four distinctive musical styles - Church Music, Country Blues, Ragtime and Anglo-American Folk - unwittingly join forces to create the musical force we refer to collectively as The Blues.
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Ethics DuringChange
MGT/426
June 30th, 2014
Ethics DuringChange
Companies nowadays face more than just the business aspect when it comes to changes, the fast changing external environment of business urges for changes to take place more often than before, with these changes several ethical issues have to be faced and resolve to satisfy the stakeholder. When such problems arise organizations must solve them keeping in mind ethical practices, in the following paper the topics to discuss are the ethical dilemmas an organization will face and how most deal with it, we will also cited individual opinions and examples based on experience that apply to this topic.
Innovation and change are inevitable processes in the business world. Organizations are constantly evolving and changing in response to market trends. If your business is on the verge of restructuring or undergoing some other significant transformation, give due consideration to the role of ethics and responsibility as you move forward (Lewis, 2014) As management one of the primary focus when implementing a change is to get the buy-in from the employees, that includes to ensure that the communication is transparent otherwise it might be perceived as an illegal or immoral act, if a company is not up front with the employees about the changes, the employees have the...

...Ethics DuringChange
MGT/426
August 25, 2013
Diane Welhouse
Ethics DuringChange
As society has seen over the last few decades, ethics had not been at the forefront of organizational decision-making and change processes as it should have been. Unfortunately because of the actions or lack of actions by the few, many lives have been devastated and society’s view of corporate organizations has been severely damaged. Between government interventions, and organizational realizations, ethics seem to have become a focal point during the decision making and change processes. Most organizations realize that changes must occur to maintain, sustain, and grow, and the inclusion of ethical considerations is imperative to sound decisions and implementation.
Organizations must make a commitment to themselves and society, to uphold a high level of ethical standards and behaviors, to ensure the view of the organization remains positive. Simply stated, ethics are beliefs individuals and organizations have that determine what standards or behaviors are deemed to be appropriate or inappropriate. According to Sonenshein (2009), there is a theory about the emergence of ethical issues during the change process (Sonenshein, 2009, p. 230). Sonenshein (2009) explains that the starting issues found in change are, “trigger points,...

...﻿Feminism during the 50’s: A Look at Conflicting Gender Roles
The book Revolutionary Road, written by Richard Yates, tells the reader a story about the life of Frank and April Wheeler. The Wheelers are a married couple with children who live in a 1950’s suburb. This essay shows the reader how characters in the book do not conform to typical gender roles during this time period and how these gender roles are switched between men and women. The story gives us a lot of insight in to gender roles during the 1950’s. However, Frank and April Wheeler do not abide to the typical gender roles of men and women during this time period in American society. The idea of this analysis is to show the reader how Feminism and Masculinity are tested in Revolutionary Road. Richard Yates switches gender roles in this novel and does a good job of showing us a different perspective from what was most common during the 1950’s.
Revolutionary Road is about Frank and April Wheeler who live in a suburb called Revolutionary Estates with their two children Jennifer and Michael. They are viewed by their neighbors as your ideal husband and wife. They have a nosy real estate agent named Mrs. Giving’s who randomly shows up throughout the story and has a deranged son named John who ends up having some conflict with the Wheelers. Mrs. Giving’s also has a husband named Howard who...